CONTENT WARNING:
This production is rated a "playful R"

This play is comprised of five short plays. They are all comedies which pastiche horror films combined with Shakespearean plays. They all contain:

  • Foul language
  • Violence
  • Heightened language ("shakespeare speak")
  • Reference to sexual scenarios


The plays are listed here in their order in the progam. Most of the references listted here are brief and in a comedic context.

The play 'Tempest' contains: 

  • simulated thunder and lightning (a flash of light)
  • reference to a child dying
  • yelling 
  • single parenthood
  • an emotionally abusive parent  
  • people wearing disguises
  • being deserted on an island
  • suggestion of mental illness 

The play ' Monkeypaw Macbeth' contains:

  • reference to war
  • reference to germaphobia 
  • depiction of a taxidermied baboon hand
  • people in the military (Scottish, circa 1040 CE-ish)
  • reference to plumbing and poop
  • people making fun of the sound of eacch other's names 
  • reference to the sound people make when they puke 
  • reference to treason
  • reference to going to jail 
  • depiction of death 
  • reference to C-sections

Thirteenth Night contains:

  • reference to crushing a can of beer 
  • reference to crossdressing
  • reference to being brutally slaughtered / murdered
  • depiction of smoking a bong 
  • depiction of Punch & Judy puppets
  • depiction of someone being watched without their consent in their home 
  • sounds of screaming 
  • a clown outfit
  • depiction of a hangover 
  • depiction of gaslighting
  • death by axe 
  • death by pistol
  • sound of a gunshot

The Ingénue Slumber Party Hauntening contains:

  • reference to couple's counseling 
  • depiction of a cigarette
  • reference to dying in childbirth
  • reference to bloodletting
  • reference to bullying
  • reference to cutting throats
  • reference to wetting the bed
  • depiction of posession
  • reference to projectile vomiting 
  • reference to a nunnery

The play 'Tragedy' contains:

  • depiction of someone tied up
  • depiction of broken legs
  • depiction of holding someone captive
  • depiction of tickling
  • depiction of death by pillow-smothering

 

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